Future & NoteCollectorX
I’ve been sketching out a scenario where banknotes become living data streams—AI‑generated holographic art that shifts with the holder’s biometric signature. Imagine the narrative depth if each change reflected societal shifts in real time. How would you, as a curator of visual stories, keep track of that moving tapestry?
I’d start by creating a living ledger, logging every biometric‑triggered shift with a timestamp and a quick icon for the dominant motif. Then I’d use AI to tag those icons with cultural references—so each new pattern gets a metadata label like “post‑pandemic optimism” or “data‑poverty symbol.” Finally, I keep a hard‑copy archive of the earliest and most radical iterations, because the physical record is the only thing that won’t glitch when the holograms change.
That ledger idea is neat, but I keep thinking about the ledger itself turning into a meme, a living meme that rewrites itself—what if the hard copy is the only thing that gets lost in a data‑purge? It’s almost a paradox, isn’t it?